Dec 6, 2018 11:25 am
Alright, all things considered, I'm leaning towards either a Child of Gaia or Stargazer Philodox
Character Creation
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Dec 6, 2018 4:31 pm
Sounds good. I'll be toning down more extravagant aspects of the rampant racism, but some of the meritocracy based views will be there. Wanting to avoid the "that guy" cloak of actions. But since everyone seems cool with the dynamic, I'll go ahead and get something rolling. Should we do a background? And if so, how much should we do for that?
Dec 7, 2018 4:29 am
Definitely write up a background for your character. That's part of the fun of games. I wouldn't put too much into it. These are fresh cliath who haven't done much, or anything, of note. Maybe what your first change was like and what it was like in the sept before being placed in this pack and sent to Seattle?
Dec 7, 2018 4:31 am
If you have a special fetish, it'd be nice to include in your background where/how you got it.
Dec 7, 2018 8:36 am
Did you want us to do our own background in a paragraph or so, or did you want to do each of our preludes through private message? That way we can get your input.
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Dec 7, 2018 10:12 pm
I guess for now we'll go without a Pack totem. Maybe once in the game, we can seek one out?
Dec 7, 2018 10:31 pm
Alright, so officially going with Lupus Stargazer Philodox. He was in the Tibetan Black Wolf exhibit at the Seattle Zoo. He turned and was arrested for trespassing. He was bailed out by the Werewolf who would become his teacher and mentor.
In WW20, is the metaplot still that the Stargazers have mostly retreated East?
In WW20, is the metaplot still that the Stargazers have mostly retreated East?
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Dec 8, 2018 4:59 am
Here's my character. Still needs to pour my background down. Stony Hardaway
[ +- ] backstory
Raised since a cub by a Freeman on the Land militia commune as a yard dog, suffering minor abuse at their hands but fed well, he lived that way until his first change. Raging, he destroyed an outbuilding and was shot by the militiamen. He fled into the wilderness, but not knowing how to hunt, he made his way to civilization.
He lodged up with a teen shelter run by a church in Coeur D'Alene, and they taught him much of the ways of being human. They called him Tony and he was largely left in peace as a troubled teeth with deep trust issues. He was good a puzzles and games, and loved singing in their choir. The police leaned on him heavily, questioning him whenever an unsolved crime was committed, especially given that he rarely had an alibi.
He spent many nights in the forest, preferring his natural form, learning the ways of the wild, and finding a small pack of half wolves and wild dogs. He found it easier to be amoung humans in Glabro form, which gave him added size and strength, and more respect. He vowed to never adopt homid form unless it served as a disguise; his glabro form would be his human identity.
It was during this time that he was approached by a kinfolk shaman, who recognized something within him. Taken to tribal lands, the Coeur D'Alene reservation, he became tutored by the Schitsu'umsh, taught that he was a warrior of the spirits, and was sent by Gaia to recover that which was stolen. It was there that he was found by the Uktena who welcomed him as one of their own. His affinity for deeper mysteries lead him into studying with the Theurges. As a final lesson before released from their tutelage, he was taught the Rite of Dedication, and given a medicine bag that he could dedicate (Fetish 1, Magpie's Swag, page 221).
Eventually, he was jumped into the Raiders camp of the Uktena. They called him Stony due to his Fair Glabro adopted form. Sent to Seattle to join a pack, he made his way there through the forests. His only possessions the fetish and the clothes dedicated to his body.
He met runaway in the woods near Seattle, a young teen waif named Sophie. He senses something mystical in her, and immediately felt the need to protect her. He has grown very fond of the girl, and set her up in a homeless shelter in Seattle. Like him, a life of abuse has taught her that life on the streets is preferrable to any guilded cage. Her presence in the city both disturbs and rewards him, and he often spends time keeping an eye on her when he should be searching out pockets of the wyrm.
In his preferred Glabro form, Stony towers at 6'10" and 375 pounds. He has long hair he keeps in braids, native style, and wears rough black jeans, a homespun shirt over a collared shirt, and construction boots. His nature raises the hackles or suspicion of anyone near him.
He lodged up with a teen shelter run by a church in Coeur D'Alene, and they taught him much of the ways of being human. They called him Tony and he was largely left in peace as a troubled teeth with deep trust issues. He was good a puzzles and games, and loved singing in their choir. The police leaned on him heavily, questioning him whenever an unsolved crime was committed, especially given that he rarely had an alibi.
He spent many nights in the forest, preferring his natural form, learning the ways of the wild, and finding a small pack of half wolves and wild dogs. He found it easier to be amoung humans in Glabro form, which gave him added size and strength, and more respect. He vowed to never adopt homid form unless it served as a disguise; his glabro form would be his human identity.
It was during this time that he was approached by a kinfolk shaman, who recognized something within him. Taken to tribal lands, the Coeur D'Alene reservation, he became tutored by the Schitsu'umsh, taught that he was a warrior of the spirits, and was sent by Gaia to recover that which was stolen. It was there that he was found by the Uktena who welcomed him as one of their own. His affinity for deeper mysteries lead him into studying with the Theurges. As a final lesson before released from their tutelage, he was taught the Rite of Dedication, and given a medicine bag that he could dedicate (Fetish 1, Magpie's Swag, page 221).
Eventually, he was jumped into the Raiders camp of the Uktena. They called him Stony due to his Fair Glabro adopted form. Sent to Seattle to join a pack, he made his way there through the forests. His only possessions the fetish and the clothes dedicated to his body.
He met runaway in the woods near Seattle, a young teen waif named Sophie. He senses something mystical in her, and immediately felt the need to protect her. He has grown very fond of the girl, and set her up in a homeless shelter in Seattle. Like him, a life of abuse has taught her that life on the streets is preferrable to any guilded cage. Her presence in the city both disturbs and rewards him, and he often spends time keeping an eye on her when he should be searching out pockets of the wyrm.
In his preferred Glabro form, Stony towers at 6'10" and 375 pounds. He has long hair he keeps in braids, native style, and wears rough black jeans, a homespun shirt over a collared shirt, and construction boots. His nature raises the hackles or suspicion of anyone near him.
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Dec 8, 2018 5:04 am
WarDomo says:
In WW20, is the metaplot still that the Stargazers have mostly retreated East?
Dec 8, 2018 3:22 pm
Yeah, do your own background in a paragraph or two. PbP is slow enough that I'd rather jump right to the game instead of eating time with preludes.
As far as pack totem, we can seek one out after the game starts. The group will have to figure out how they work as a pack and then can go find someone. I think that's part of the fun.
As far as pack totem, we can seek one out after the game starts. The group will have to figure out how they work as a pack and then can go find someone. I think that's part of the fun.
Dec 10, 2018 8:44 pm
You'll have to excuse my poor grammar and writing skills once I post my background. I'm a gamer before I'm a writer. :P
Dec 10, 2018 8:46 pm
Sorry, work got busy and time got away from me. I should have something up either tonight or tomorrow.
Dec 10, 2018 10:01 pm
Damn it, it's terrible but it's done. Sorry in advance.
[ +- ] Jakes Background
*Standing near a barrel fire warming himself throwing jokes around with the many other, you walk towards Jake. A man built like a dumpster, who doesn't seem to fit with the others who are in a state of starving thin.
Oh so it's you, well I guess you wanted to hear what I have to say about my past. Truth be told I usually look to the present more and leave the past behind. But I guess in order for this to work you need to know where I came from.
I was raised by piece of shit parents, I left home when I was 11. Living on the streets in Detroit was hell but it was better than being beat my old man every damn day.
Had lots of trouble connecting with people in the same situation. I'd get some help now and again but everyone always seem to keep their distance. No group or gang for that matter seem to fully trust me enough no matter what I did .. or offered.
I had to learn quickly what I needed to survive, those first 2 years were bad. Starving, stealing and often times cold, I was one day from dying in a gutter I sware. But there was one old man who decided to take me in for whatever reason. The system failed him too, he was a vet named Shepard who lost his arm in a war, think it was desert storm or some shit. Anyways he took me under his wing. Taught me things like how to stay warm, get fresh water and how to defend myself if anyone came looking for trouble. He did all this with asking nothing in return. It was really quite terrifying actually.
Then one day some assholes with a gun came looking for fun in hobo alley. I mean I've seen some people do some mean shit but this, they started firing at random laughing, shot an old woman in the leg and just laughed at here bleeding all over the place. Then something came over me before I knew it those assholes were nothing but paste all over the walls. Exhausted after, I collapsed.
I woke up in a room somewhere dark and off the street with Shep sitting in a chair near the bed. He told me what had happened, told me he had a similar "condition" and that he needed to introduce me to a hidden world that no other jackasses knew about.
Istá Ò:niare(Mother snake) my partner in crime
*looking on Jakes belt you see a huge army knife in a sheath.
Oh that's Izzy don't worry she only bites wrym tainted jackoffs. We've been together for a while it's not a very interesting story I'm sure you heard hundreds like it. It was during my Rite of passage I had been given the low down on Garuo culture and needed to prove myself to a bunch of idiots.
So me, and with a small pack of cubs lead by some blowhard were told to investigate a bunch of .. unusual animal killings near parks and wooded areas. What we found were crushed half digested animals of various sizes, mice, cats, a dear.
*You see Jake take a moment looking into the fire as the rest of the group around you spread out.
Then we saw the cop. Blind, acid burns all over his body but alive who knows for how long he had suffered lying there in a pool of whatever this thing used for bile. The group just wanted to move on, I mean I'm no friend to cops but nothing should have to suffer as this guy did. After bringing him peace I had the bright idea of trying to talk our cub alpha into calling for help. This was obviously above our pay grad. But he thought that his glory would be affected and if I brought it up again I wouldn't leave these woods.
To better track what we were dealing with we step side ways to the Umbra. Yeah, that was a mistake whatever the hell this thing was it wasn't only consuming animals. We seen dead spirits littered the entire plane in pretty much the same state like everything else.
We then met a weeping snake spirit, she said her name was Istá Ò:niare or mother serpent and that the great snake father of this area had gone mad with hunger. Due to a massive amount of poison this area was dosed in it dramatically reduced the rodent poplulation causes some of the smaller predators to stave.
This great snake spirit was enraged and angry, the wrym had tainted her mate with an aspect of "Eater-of-Souls". Making the spirit abnormally large, aggressive and with an insatiable hunger. The damn thing didn't even digest half of the shit it swallowed. It consumed the smaller spirits at first then their children, then moved over to the real world.
We eventually tracked the damn thing into a quarry of some type. This thing was massive with fangs the size of a Buick and venom twice as lethal as cyanide. So I let alpha boy get his glory and after about 5 seconds after he got pasted I howled for help.
The elders came fast but not before we ended up with a large number of causalities. We started with 8 cubs we were now 3. We helped the elders as best we could, after what feels like hours we finally defeated the spirit but at the cost of the cubs and poor Shep my mentor, the only person who seems to give a shit about me.
*You see Jake wipe something with the side of his sleave.
Grateful for bring peace to her mate, Izzy understood the great loss we all suffered through. And to honor the great Garou who gave his life she bounded herself to me in hope that we can prevent such an evil from happening again.
Oh so it's you, well I guess you wanted to hear what I have to say about my past. Truth be told I usually look to the present more and leave the past behind. But I guess in order for this to work you need to know where I came from.
I was raised by piece of shit parents, I left home when I was 11. Living on the streets in Detroit was hell but it was better than being beat my old man every damn day.
Had lots of trouble connecting with people in the same situation. I'd get some help now and again but everyone always seem to keep their distance. No group or gang for that matter seem to fully trust me enough no matter what I did .. or offered.
I had to learn quickly what I needed to survive, those first 2 years were bad. Starving, stealing and often times cold, I was one day from dying in a gutter I sware. But there was one old man who decided to take me in for whatever reason. The system failed him too, he was a vet named Shepard who lost his arm in a war, think it was desert storm or some shit. Anyways he took me under his wing. Taught me things like how to stay warm, get fresh water and how to defend myself if anyone came looking for trouble. He did all this with asking nothing in return. It was really quite terrifying actually.
Then one day some assholes with a gun came looking for fun in hobo alley. I mean I've seen some people do some mean shit but this, they started firing at random laughing, shot an old woman in the leg and just laughed at here bleeding all over the place. Then something came over me before I knew it those assholes were nothing but paste all over the walls. Exhausted after, I collapsed.
I woke up in a room somewhere dark and off the street with Shep sitting in a chair near the bed. He told me what had happened, told me he had a similar "condition" and that he needed to introduce me to a hidden world that no other jackasses knew about.
Istá Ò:niare(Mother snake) my partner in crime
*looking on Jakes belt you see a huge army knife in a sheath.
Oh that's Izzy don't worry she only bites wrym tainted jackoffs. We've been together for a while it's not a very interesting story I'm sure you heard hundreds like it. It was during my Rite of passage I had been given the low down on Garuo culture and needed to prove myself to a bunch of idiots.
So me, and with a small pack of cubs lead by some blowhard were told to investigate a bunch of .. unusual animal killings near parks and wooded areas. What we found were crushed half digested animals of various sizes, mice, cats, a dear.
*You see Jake take a moment looking into the fire as the rest of the group around you spread out.
Then we saw the cop. Blind, acid burns all over his body but alive who knows for how long he had suffered lying there in a pool of whatever this thing used for bile. The group just wanted to move on, I mean I'm no friend to cops but nothing should have to suffer as this guy did. After bringing him peace I had the bright idea of trying to talk our cub alpha into calling for help. This was obviously above our pay grad. But he thought that his glory would be affected and if I brought it up again I wouldn't leave these woods.
To better track what we were dealing with we step side ways to the Umbra. Yeah, that was a mistake whatever the hell this thing was it wasn't only consuming animals. We seen dead spirits littered the entire plane in pretty much the same state like everything else.
We then met a weeping snake spirit, she said her name was Istá Ò:niare or mother serpent and that the great snake father of this area had gone mad with hunger. Due to a massive amount of poison this area was dosed in it dramatically reduced the rodent poplulation causes some of the smaller predators to stave.
This great snake spirit was enraged and angry, the wrym had tainted her mate with an aspect of "Eater-of-Souls". Making the spirit abnormally large, aggressive and with an insatiable hunger. The damn thing didn't even digest half of the shit it swallowed. It consumed the smaller spirits at first then their children, then moved over to the real world.
We eventually tracked the damn thing into a quarry of some type. This thing was massive with fangs the size of a Buick and venom twice as lethal as cyanide. So I let alpha boy get his glory and after about 5 seconds after he got pasted I howled for help.
The elders came fast but not before we ended up with a large number of causalities. We started with 8 cubs we were now 3. We helped the elders as best we could, after what feels like hours we finally defeated the spirit but at the cost of the cubs and poor Shep my mentor, the only person who seems to give a shit about me.
*You see Jake wipe something with the side of his sleave.
Grateful for bring peace to her mate, Izzy understood the great loss we all suffered through. And to honor the great Garou who gave his life she bounded herself to me in hope that we can prevent such an evil from happening again.
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Dec 11, 2018 12:32 pm
Would you be opposed to me taking Kalindo? I would also be taking the Mentor Background with it.
Dec 12, 2018 1:52 am
Alright, just need to spend a couple of background points, and hammer out a history, and I will be good to go.
Dec 12, 2018 4:47 am
WarDomo says:
Would you be opposed to me taking Kalindo? I would also be taking the Mentor Background with it.Dec 12, 2018 8:19 am
Yeah, wasn't reprinted for W20 for what ever reason. Trying to find a pdf of the rules for it in Werewolf 2nd ed.
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